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2002 Dec 21
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external journal
...have some questions about external journals. On a 4 disk software RAID 5 I have two big devices (one 60 GB, one 180 GB). I would like to give each an external journal on a 2 disk software RAID 1 device and use data=journal. The journal will get its own partition with mke2fs -O journal_dev /dev/mdwhatever. The used 6 harddrives are all IDE drives, they are connected through mainboard and additional ide controllers, each one as master (no slaves). My questions: How big should each of the journals be? Can I put both journals in one RAID 1 device (i.e. give both the same device=/dev/mdwhatever...